Hi, the survey is now closed. Thanks to all 125 participants who shared their views and desires!
The results are available at http://www.surveybob.com/surveybob/r/43eb07d5-dc27-4424-b1a1-5069a5be1865.html Some more frequent or interesting requests and remarks by the survey participants: Keep up the good work, you rock! Blog and evangelize more! Once KDE is stable I can finally switch to OpenSolaris Integrate the TimeSlider feature and Dtrace probes Unify the prefixes Turn off debug mode Below I'll try to cover the information that is not directly visible from the graphs and is somehow interesting. You can get the raw data at http://tropikhajma.sweb.cz/osol/survey-results-latest.ods if you need the exact numbers or want to test your own hypothesis. Most of them were interested in running KDE4 on OpenSolaris/x86, although interest in S10 is also significant. I'd expect the S10 and Sparc requests to increase once we see them built regularly. Right now we don't really advertise ourselves outside OpenSolaris channels. Regarding 32/64 bit packages, over 40 per cent of the participants want to watch all of the bits they've paid for working. This view is particularly stressed by : people interested in Sparc support, the ones requesting localization, Korona users, and people unfamiliar with the project. The opposite view is shared more by Solaris users, people building their own packages and the ones willing to join the project. Concerning KDE version, the clear winner is the latest stable version. A bit higher interest in slightly older version of KDE is among people interested in S10 support, while latest devel version is more attractive to people with OSOL2009.06/x86 and devel versions of OSOL in their minds, to people who build their own packages, participate in the discussions and to people unfamiliar with the project; but the latest stable is a winner there as well. Slightly older version is acceptable for about one quarter of Solaris and Windows users, as well as for people requiring just basic KDE. It is not really surprising to see demands for stable version correlate with demands for stability in general. On the same note, people interested in latest devel versions are much more tolerant to bugs. Basic KDE finds most fans in people interested in Sparc on OpenSolaris, in the ones happy with older KDE versions as well as the latest devel fans. It's preferred by Solaris and MacOS users and people unfamiliar with the project. On the other hand, Korona users and people who only check the project status periodically prefer it less. Standard KDE is more popular among people interested in S10/Sparc and OpenSolaris 2010.03/Sparc Complete KDE is valued more than average by Solaris, BSD and Windows users. Potential KDE on Sparc users don't really want KDE+Extra apps, same applies to Solaris users. People who would like to somehow participate in the project tend to require either everything or just the basic features. Rock stability is a priority for BSD and MacOS users, people who are unfamiliar with the project and people who just check the project status once in a while. Most bug tolerant are Windows and Solaris users, people who build the packages, participate in the discussions or would like to join the project and a certain portion of people unfamiliar with the project. Localization is quite a requested feature. It is mostly demanded by BSD, Windows and OpenSolaris users, as well as Korona users and people unfamiliar with the project. It's not so much demanded by people interested in KDE on Sparc or S10. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
